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Caritas- Saturday night after 8:15 pm

The dates were over, the glitter was still there, the glitter lived with you now, and the night was still young. So maybe people wanted to hang at the bar for a little while. Maybe you wanted to take the date further, or maybe you just wanted to gossip or catch up with people you weren't matched with!

Either way the specials still told a story.

SPECIALS
French Kiss
Love Potion
New Friend
Panties Unleashed
Love Blossoms mocktail

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You can talk to Kitty or mod Tino!

In case you want a little more privacy.

In case the date went really well and you needed to show off on the bull or the pole?

La!

She and Ignis hadn't gotten paired up for a round, but that was fine, they'd had a plan for that, too. For now, she was ordering herself another drink - a French Kiss, this time - and leaning against the bar to enjoy watching the aftermath of the dates.

After her dates, Arden figured she'd get at least one more soda before heading home. Although, a bunch of people were already there and karaoke was an option, right? Hmmm.

There had been a plan, indeed, and, in fact, the part of Ignis that had earlier felt as though he almost wished they hadn't been paired so that they could enact was feeling quite smug and satisfied by the time the fifth round came along with not even a whisper of their names together.

It was easy for him to find the spot at the bar where Liliana had settled; he could find her easily anywhere, really, and not even simply by her all-too-familiar scent, but just by her sheer presence, a force that he could swear he felt all the way down into his bones. And so there he was, slipping into the spot to her side and leaning against the bar as if it were merely the only spot in which he could squeeze to place his own post-dates order.

"Tino," he said, taking a moment to slip off his glasses and tuck them into the pocket inside his jacket, "if you could be so kind, another of those Love Potions. I daresay, the wise person who suggested it to me earlier was quite on the mark."

Liliana turned, giving him an appreciative once over, especially as he tucked his glasses away. "That must be quite the delicious drink," she purred. "I can't imagine a handsome gentleman like yourself would needing to resort to a love potion for any other reason." She offered him a smile. "Well hello there."

And Ignis was fielding that smile right back to Liliana as he turned, a distinct tilt to it that seemed to match the way he leaned his lithe body against it and angled it her way. "It is a rather complex with an interesting flavor profile," he explained, with words that would no doubt sound rather familiar to her, "with uncommon ingredients, what's not to love? About the drink, anyway, as I'm starting to feel like I might be realizing that I have been drastically undercut on the quality of my matches this evening..."

No offense to those he did have dates with, of course. You were all lovely. But, really, now...

Clearly, that wise person who'd suggested it to him had been an individual with exquisite taste.

"Hmm, with that kind of ringing endorsement, I might just have to try it myself," she said, leaning close enough to just baaaaarely brush against him when she moved. "And here I just asked for a French Kiss to tide me over for the evening."

Speaking of she was going to take a sip of it right then, as if he wasn't already firmly aware of her mouth.

"And that's a shame. Did you have no one who truly caught your attention?"

"A French Kiss?" Ignis asked, leaning in a little himself, and, yes, very aware of her mouth, but mostly just the distance between it and his own, which still maintained that devilish smirk. "C'est exquis, though, if I may admit, it seems a bit...demure, for something expected to tide one over for the rest of an evening...

"But I'm afraid not," he informed her with the slightest of sighs. "Truly fascinating conversations, to be sure, some far more engaging than anything in such a restricted time frame had any right to be, but I'm afraid there was just a distinct lack of anyone with just the right..."

A brush of his finger against his chin, brow slightly wrinkled, eyes narrowed and lip caught for a moment between his teeth as he seemed to be searching for just the right word...

"...spark." The fingers at his chin abandoned it for a small snap. "That what it was I was searching for."

Liliana laughed, too delighted by his wit to make it an archly flirtatious one, purple eyes practically sparkling. Though she did manage to collect herself enough to return to that velvety rich purr before speaking again. "Looking for a spark, hmm?" she asked. "Do you often enjoy playing with fire, sir?"

She took another sip of her drink. "Though I'll grant you, perhaps keeping myself to a French Kiss is a more limiting than I am wont to be. Though I also didn't find myself with a date that merited moving from a French Kiss to, say, a Panty Unleashed."

Lana headed over after her dates were done and ordered a Love Potion, drinking and watching everyone.

And once the dates were over, Jaina joined her. "So. This Eternal Alliance."

"What would you like to know?" Lana asked.

Did Ignis, at that point, even need his drink, with a laugh so utterly intoxicating as hers? And though Liliana was far more liberal with her laughs that he was with his smiles, it was still a point of pride for him to pull one like that out of her, just so simply delighted and free of pretext.

"I'll have you know," he informed her, "that I have always been exceptionally good when it comes to handling heat. And perhaps that fire is just that missing ingredient in elevating that drink order of yours."

Since they'd been so rudely interrupted by the bell, Rey and Adrian headed to the bar to continue the chat.

"Want a drink?" she asked.

"Arden," Erasmus said, relieved, when he saw her by the bar. "Hi. I'm gonna need to leave in a minute," to go let his head explode in peace, "but I just wanted to check something. Is there a guy made of felt?"

"Mmm, but how are you with chill?" she asked, gliding a finger down one cheek and and then further down his throat. "Though I am certainly interested in hearing more about your ideas for improving my drinks for the evening? A French Kiss is a lovely place to start, but I know I prefer my nights to get much wilder."

None of Stark's dates had been a rousing success. They'd all been fine.

So he was still hopeful he might be able to have a drink with a friend before leaving.

"Oh! Beaker, yeah," Arden said. "He used to be a teacher here but then he left with the crazy vampire doctor. He likes lighting fires which seems really not wise, considering."

You know. Felt.

Did that really make you feel better to learn, Erasmus?

On the one hand, yes, because it meant that he hadn't just hallucinated that whole thing and then possibly also his conversation with Stark. On the other hand...

"He was a teacher?" Erasmus asked. "But...he only says meep?" A lot. So many meeps.

"Yes please," he said and then shot a look to Kitty. "Vodka spritzer, not in a bowl, please."

Not a cry for help, Kitty, honest!

"I have no idea," Arden said. "I know there was one that was trying to break into Professor Stark's tower...?" She shook her head. "I never took any of his classes." Or if she had, she'd blocked them out.

"Weird," Erasmus said. "Okay, thanks. I gotta--I gotta get out of here. I'll catch you later?" Somewhere without the Chain Veil in the vicinity, maybe?

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